Prior Winners 2017

2017 Wordplay is now complete!
The winners for 2017 are listed first (in red). Congratulations to David Tope for coming in first this year. Congratulations to all the top 10!

Here’s the List of Words that came in for the 2017 Contest and this year’s winners!! We have continued with some categories we used in 2015. The Top 10 are in RED at the top of the list. We only choose one top-10 per submitter, so for the more prolific contributors, we have the honorable mentions showing in BLUE. And there there are the ones that didn’t fit the rules that we just liked. They are in PURPLE. Congratulations to the winners!

Word

Definition

Name

WINNERS!

2017 WINNERS!

WINNERS!

Neurapathy

You've lost feeling in your extremities and just don't care.

David Topel

Destingy

When life doesn't give you what you want.

Steph Sala

Realastic

A flexible view of reality

Mia Debidin

Perflunctory

Taking a test you know you will fail

Ronald C Hamm

Typochondriac

A person who is abnormally anxious about their spelling.

Ryan Mottershaw

Serendipiteous

Something that was supposed to go pleasantly went terribly sour

Vali Jamal

Entertrain

Letting the iPad raise your kids.

Erik Rye

Damnesia

You can't remember what the h*** happened.

Chris Branks

Girthright

Survival of the fattest

Doug Langmead

Goofle

When you make a typo when performing an internet search and accidentally google the wrong thing

Reilly Selmser

HONORABLE MENTIONS

Contrailto

Ghost writer in the sky

Doug Langmead

Snarcophagus

The final resting place of a deadly wit

Erik Rye

Igsnoring

pretending to be asleep so as not to have to listen

Mia Debidin

Limbp

A wooden leg that's half an inch too short.

Doug Langmead

Optimystic

mystically hopeful

Vali Jamal PhD

Psychiatryst

illicit romance between mental health professionals

Brian Meyer

SPECIAL MENTION

Oops – more than one letter change, but we like these

Puralysis

The inability to move because you have a sleeping cat on your lap that you don’t want to disturb.

Name Withheld

Ex-plain

When your former spouse tries to help you understand what went wrong.

Bar Lowenberg

Pronunciate

To pronounce a word correctly as well as to enunciate the word properly.

Bethany Nomeland

Nar

A lecture that's twice as long as a seminar.

Bob Forrest

Overcite

use too many quotations.

Pablo Dominguez

Ilfliteration

The tedious repetition of, what sounds to be, the same uninformed statement.

Anne DelCampo

Beneviolent

Marked by the tendency to be both kindly and injurious to others

Anne DelCampo

Kintrigue

Curiosity or suspicion about one’s “family tree”

Anne DelCampo

Pandemic

An over population of pandas.

Nicole T Swearingen

Asskance

A sideways glance at someone’s “derrière”

Anne DelCampo

Shenunigans

Mischief at the convent

Anne DelCampo

Stalactice

The ice spikes on mountainside

Sandra Cherry

Reciplease

A polite request for cooking instructions

Michael Melkers

Vastibule

large entrance hall

Pablo Dominguez

Sobmit

give in to authority or control with a sad whimp.

Pablo Dominguez

Twindering

The act of twins simultaneously reviewing and discussing their respective Tinder matches.

Brenna

Brouhaham

Fighting over the Honey Baked

Ronald C Hamm

Shemantics

the branch of linguistics and logic concerned with meanings that only women understand

Michael Melkers

Trespissing

Standing on your own property and peeing on your neighbors lawn.

Stan Pullen

Idealogical

belief that whatever crap thought you come up with is rational and brilliant

Jon Wood

Flingerie

Overly showy and uncomfortable undergarments worn on a 1st date in case you hook up

Michael Melkers

Puralysis

The inability to move because you have a sleeping cat on your lap that you don’t want to disturb.

Name Withheld

Numptial

Incompetent wedding celebrant

Douglas Langmead

Hoity-taity

The comparative prestige of restaurants as measured by how they prepare their potatoes.

Jeff Clendenin

Philanthropissed

A once generous donor now royally annoyed by the number of organizations hassling him for his cash.

Rob Baschak-Lowden

Subterfugue

Contrapuntal chicanery

Doug Langmead

Pornucopia

Perversion in abundance.

Name Withheld

Emeticon

A small face or symbol at the end of a sentence that is so badly produced it initiates the gag reflex.

Name Withheld

Massticate

Slowly chewing the Communion Wafer

Ronald C Hamm

Reignforest

large area of tropical trees which is the property of a monarch.

Pablo Dominguez

Jobsessed

worrying constantly about finding regular employment.

Pablo Dominguez

Noirish

Alackagaelic

Doug Langmead

Perflunctory

Taking a test you know you will fail

Ronald Hamm

Nevertheloss

In spite of ceasing to have something

Pablo Dominguez

Textravert

Someone who is only outgoing when texting.

Heather Wolfe

Pronunciate

To pronounce a word correctly as well as to enunciate the word properly.

Bethany Nomeland

Itheology

ideas that form the system of a religion.

Pablo Dominguez

Negligent

A man dressed in a woman's sexy nightgown.

Mia Debidin

Answear

Reply with profanity

Mia Debidin

Archeopologist

A person who regrets the damage done to ancient ruins in the Middle East

Dick Kerr

Fartriloquism

Looking harshly at a nearby stranger immediately after your own flatulence in order to assign blame.

The study of mobile apps (Apologist – a person who studies mobile apps)

Andrew Singer

Galternative

The mistress or "other woman"

Bob Kriz

Glonads

Great balls of fire!

Bob Kriz

Bayonnaise

A condiment with a sharp aftertaste

Matt Heider

Umbiblical

A Good Book with a navel ending

Doug Langmead

Raggamuffin

A poorly decorated cupcake.

Connie Schuster

Excrellent

Something which is impressively awful

Eric Knight

Voluptuary

An aviary that houses erotic birds.

William J Gibbons

Addministrator

An accountant

Eric Knight

Appathetic

Bad at mobile gaming

Andrew Singer

Naturorally

spoken in a natural manner.

Pablo Dominguez

Taughture

abstruse and insufferable professor's lecture.

Pablo Dominguez

Spunge

live off the generosity of wealthy punsters.

Pablo Dominguez

Psychiatryst

illicit romance between mental health professionals

Brian Meyer

Ostentorious

Loud – very loud!

Doug Langmead

Spuntaneous

improvised pun.

Pablo Domínguez

Degreed

stage in a scale of desire for food or wealth.

Pablo Domínguez

anthrapology

A general, broad-based apology to all beasts and things for the common bad behavior of the human race toward the planet (or, whatever).

Michael McClure

Nar

A lecture that's twice as long as a seminar.

Bob Forrest

Destingy

When life doesn't give you what you want.

Steph Sala

Karmalite

Dacoit assault rifle

Douglas Langmead

Grabage

What dumpster divers pull out of the trash.

Bob Forrest

Somnambulanc

Emergency vehicle for sleepwalkers

Mettanada Armstrong

Havocation

Strong desire to cause great destruction or chaos.

Pablo Dominguez

Inkstantaneous

No sooner said than inscribed

Doug Langmead

Dispence

make a small donation to charity.

Pablo Dominguez

Awesum

huge amount of money causing amazement.

Pablo Dominguez

Archache

dull pain begun a long time ago.

Pablo Dominguez

Marathong

Tiny apparel for long-distance runners

Ingrid Burling

Alooft

A dwelling-space for high-minded, semi-detached tenants

Doug Langmead

Weighlay

stop people in the street to ask how heavy they are.

Pablo Dominguez

Singhular

A remarkably turbane gentleman

Doug Langmead

Biron

A handy writer for a man of letters

Doug Langmead

Egotesticle

excessively concerned with proudly talking about the size of one's gonads.

John Graddon and Mia Debidin

Emberyo

A spark of life

Doug Langmead

Wreckompense

give somebody compensation for irreparable damage caused to their property

Pablo Dominguez

Yesticulate

express acceptance by giving something the thumbs up

Pablo Dominguez

Overcite

use too many quotations.

Pablo Dominguez

Phantomime

Charades by a silent ghost

David Spharler

Interlocustor

Cricket commentator

Doug Langmead

Attension

stress caused by excessive concentration

Pablo Dominguez

Introdiction

presentation of a training course on how to pronounce words.

Pablo Dominguez

Astronaughty

disobedient space traveller

Pablo Dominguez

Oxomoron

Someone who thinks a popular brand of stock cube means hugs and kisses

Sarah Woodhead

Reverence book

A specialized handbook on a country, the definitive work, often referred to as the Bible for that country.

Sheryll Ruecker

Definotion

explanation of the meaning of a concept or idea.

Pablo Dominguez

Replicar

exact copy of an old automobile.

Pablo Dominguez

Millionheir

person who inherits one million dollars or more.

Pablo Dominguez

Ignight

set fire to something in the dark hours of the day.

Pablo Dominguez

Pestmark

The ugly blotch made by an insect on a stamp when we finally swat it to death.

Sheryll Ruecker

Elk

A deer of a different ilk

Doug Langmead

Cul-de-sac

Ancient initiation ritual for male harem attendants.

Prabha Kutty

Cabage

The amount of time a taxi has been in circulation.

Joel

Mataerial

matter existing in the air

Pablo Dominguez

Execaution

the act of carrying out carefully some activity or plan.

Pablo Dominguez

Discoarse

Rough talk

Ruth Krause

Cobrat

Obnoxious juvenile reptile.

Ruth Krause

Consitpation

The need to sit on the commode for a particularly lengthy time due to difficulty making a bowel movement.

Renee Slade

Compastible

historically a good match

Mia Debidin

Karma Sutra

An instruction book for erotic twists of fate

Guy Velgos

Wagnurian

Pngumatic Antelope

Doug Langmead & Ruth Krause

Limbp

A wooden leg that's half an inch too short.

Doug Langmead

Cardnivorus

How to describe an ATM when it eats your credit card

Julia Fairley

Frustratement

A statement made out of frustration or anger.

Eilidh Hamilton

Acornym

A mighty word grown from a little oak

Doug Langmead

Typochondriac

A person suffering from typochondriasis, which is an excessive preoccupation or worry about grammatical or spelling errors in a document. Typochondriacs fret and fuss about about capitalization, em dashes and other spelling or grammatical rules, no matter how minor they may be.

Ben Marcus

Textident

The act of bumping in to another or object while walking and texting.

Joel Josephson

Goofle

When you make a typo when performing an internet search and accidentally google the wrong thing

Reilly Selmser

Vexplain

To make clear, justify or excuse, by angrily describing in more detail.

Mia Debidin

Repincarnation

Having to reattach the boutonniere.

Kevin Sutherland

Incensed

scented with joss sticks

Mia Debidin

Gunu

An enlightened antelope

Doug Langmead

Fartitude

The ability to remain in the room when everyone has been served beans.

John Hobart

Snackcident

Raiding the fridge at 3a.m. while on a strict diet.

Joel Josephson

Entertrain

Letting the iPad raise your kids.

Erik Rye

Statisfying

The pleasant sensation one experiences when complex math works out to a very round number.

Kevin Sutherland

Riggyback

Joel Vanderheyden

Clockblockibg

Making someone late

James Whiton

Enflightenment

Achieving satori while flying.

Stanford Siver

Unnicessary

something that gives you a reason to be rude or impolite.

Mia Debidin

Tusk-tsk

How to chide an elephant

Doug Langmead & Andy Wright

Sophisticatred

A refined and cultured way of disliking someone.

Erik Rye

Snarcophagus

The final resting place of a deadly wit.

Erik Rye

Realastic

A flexible view of reality

Mia Debidin

Inomorata

A woman with whom one is no longer in love

Mia Debidin

Hiatusk

A gap-toothed elephant

Doug Langmead

Banalgesic

Devoid of all aspirination

Doug Langmead

Rectalinear

The characteristic of something that keeps your @ss in line.

Erik Rye

Spycho

A mental condition afflicting secret agents

Erik Rye

Bozone

a place frequented by clowns

David R. Purnell

Opportunite

A chance to do something this evening.

Erik Rye

Anarcy

A state of chaos resulting from the absence of narcotics.

Erik Rye

Mentacity

A lie that goes without saying.

Erik Rye

Disassociaction

Being into it when you're out of it.

Doug Langmead

Randimly

Lighting that flickers on and off indiscriminately.

Doug Langmead

Suitide

Killing yourself by drowning in the ocean

Erik Rye

Inconquesential

A victory of so little consequence that it approaches vanquishing point.

Doug Langmead

Correspondence Dinner

A bunch of Millennials sitting at a table in a restaurant texting one another.

Carol Rhodes

Locomaotion

The crazed pace with which Mao Tse-tung uprooted China from its traditional agrarian past

David R. Purnell

Rectidude

A cool guy of upright character

Erik Rye

Foxymoron

A very sexy but inexplicably stupid woman.

Mia Debidin

Scatalogue

a record of one’s bowel movements

David R. Purnell

Merder

A crappy way to die.

Erik Rye

Flotulence

The act of farting under water.

Robert Kennedy

Bangladyesh

Auntie India

Doug Langmead

Mnuchia

nothing, devoid of substance

Alex Schub

Interjest

To suddenly halt a conversation by way of a funny remark.

Odile Du

Fartitude

Staunch flatulation

Bob Kriz

Maoral

Doing the Wong thing.

Erik Rye

Ablasé

Fired up with indifference

Doug Langmead

Boasterous

Loudly bragging about your own accomplishments

Amber Barber

Cupitulation

Giving up on how to put on an athletic supporter for the first time

Bob Kriz

Angoraphobic

Fear of being attacked by rabbits if you leave your home.

Name Withheld

Passing Tirade

drive-by abuse

Mark Doherty

Inveagle

entice a large bird of prey in order to capture it.

Pablo Dominguez

Momocle

An eyeglass for Oedipus, or, an Oedipal convex.

Erik Rye

Indeuce

What you do to cure constipation.

Erik Rye

Texticles

Ballsy messages.

Erik Rye

Quesadillac

A fancy car that's the whole enchilada.

Erik Rye

Alpto

The high end of a low range

Doug Langmead

Usufract

The right to free gas for the rest of your life

Marie Pezarro

Mortgauge

A measure of the degree to which you're living on borrowed time.

Erik Rye

Judgrental

Picky about where you live.

Erik Rye

Beknighted

ignorant nobleman

Pablo Dominguez

Exaspirate

annoy by wrongly pronouncing words with the sound of the letter "h"

Pablo Dominguez

Eggress

exit of an egg from a laying hen

Pablo Dominguez

Centimental

Using only 1% of the brain

Guy Velgos

Voilation

The magical appearance or wrongdoing.

Erik Rye

Densa

An organization for the intellectually challenged who don't qualify for membership with the other organization

Andy Quinn

Knowmad

a well-informed member of a roaming tribe

Pablo Dominguez

Anteapathy

strong dislike of tea

Pablo Dominguez

Shēt fit

That moment of disgust when you give up and throw down your fitted bed sheet because you simply cannot fold it properly.

Kelly Cavner

Cultivote

develop a friendship with the electorate in order to get their vote

Pablo Dominguez

Customarry

get married following the tradition

Pablo Dominguez

Beleave

cease to have faith in something

Pablo Dominguez

Avenew

new wide street

Pablo Dominguez

Alarmistice

anxiety caused by an agreement to stop fighting

Pablo Dominguez

Buxism

painful rubbing caused by failure to wear a bra

Cam Cimis

Wedlam

A scene or state of wild uproar or confusion while planning a wedding.

Name Withheld

Flauntist

Someone who rubs their mastery of wind instruments in your face

Jon Lightman

Meateorologist

A portly physician focused on bodily fluid elimonation.

David Topel

Neurapathy

You've lost feeling in your extremities and just don't care.

David Topel

Enema

A rapper

Clive Gaunt

Molecule

A very, very small rodent

Clive Gaunt

PC de resistance

The ultimate computer

Clive Gaunt

Avaste

Hindu sailors' greeting

Doug Langmead

produser

Bully with a stick

James Galt

internyet

Denial-of-service attack perpetrated by Russian hackers.

James Galt

Instufficient

A paucity of generalities

Doug Langmead

Encyclipedia

(n.) a set of reference books written by the Pope

Elaine Sammon

Bexting

Bossing via text

Penny Levens

Stepidity

Lukewarm ignorance, the half-brother to adoptive intelligence

Doug Langmead

clarifiction

the creative spinning of implausible stories, unsupportable facts and flat out lies in an effort to make them seem more plausible.

Sara Anne Corrigan

Loverage

The act of using a man or a woman in a nefarious or ingratiating manner simply because you know that they are in love with you.

Joseph Michael

Inculator

Prepaying for a tattoo

Bob Kriz

Glutteny

Consumption of large quantities of food containing gluten.

Wayne Price

Ambitextrous

The condition a person is in following a dose of Ambien and just prior to sleep when they message complete nonsense on their smart device.

Ann Marie Ludlow

Eggnostic

A person who claims neither faith nor disbelief in Santa Claus.

Jeff Ortiz

Balliteration

base, basket, beach, billiard, bocce, bowling

Bob Kriz

Banalysis

Analysis or commentary that is completely uninsightful, often found in students' essays.

Bethany Ward

invitatonal

In life, at least 85% of meaning comes from how you say it!

Bob Freedman

Infateuated

An obsession with destiny.

Sara Craddock

Laundromate

A squeaky clean partner.

Sara Craddock

Beewildered

A confused insect.

Sara Craddock

Introvertebrate

A hermit crab

Derek Rogers

copywriter

A plagiarising wordsmith who loves advertising the fact

Kim Newman

Artificial

A curator of fake paintings

Kim Newman

pissimist

One who is pissed and doesn't believe it will get any better.

James Mize

Immigraints

A headache for wall-eyed border officials

Doug Langmead

beerligerant

some one spoiling for a fight after drinking a few beers.

Lary

Shabby

a unkempt cat badly in need of a haircut

Greg Cummins

Sycophant

An unhealthy pachyderm or member of the 6 legged insect species

Greg Cummins

Decompose

to be able to write a new song while dead

Greg Cummins

Frigate

looking inside the refrigerator to find all the contents have mysteriously been consumed even though you have been home alone

Greg Cummins

Climate

a mountaineering companion

Greg Cummins

Morsel

to be able to sell large quantities of small pieces of food while convincing the buyer they are getting a bargain

Greg Cummins

Basic

the overpowering and nauseating sensation one gets listening to loud music played at very low frequencies

Greg Cummins

Languish

To pretend to know how to use the words and phrases of another country while drunk

Greg Cummins

Exponge

A parasitic former partner who deprived you of your life, your will to live and your bank account.

Greg Cummins

Artifacial

To have an excessive amount of face lifts

Greg Cummins

Nomad

A wandering sole who never lets life get him down

Greg Cummins

Rationale

The practice of a wife unfairly restricting the amount of beer that her husband may imbibe.

Greg Cummins

Caustick

The scientific reason that things stick together

Greg Cummins

Disscourse

to unfairly criticise the entree or main meal at a dinner party

Greg Cummins

Himpolite

members of the male sex with exceedingly bad manners

Greg Cummins

Ludist

A naturist with an evil intent

Greg Cummins

Wundows

The persistent habit of your computers operating system to keep falling asleep.

Greg Cummins

Vanish

The ability to disappear when you're supposed to be painting the deck

Greg Cummins

dentism

the belief that aggressive driving is a fundamental right

Name Withheld

kryptonity

sleepwear for when you're not in the mood

Name Withheld

Nagenda

The list of regular complaints made by your wife, partner, boss etc. about undone chores and other personal deficiencies.

Wilf Berger

Memorisk

Trusting your memory regarding something important. E.G. I took a memorisk that I had turned off the gas before we left to go on our vacation.

Wilf Berger

Fanimosity

The dislike of the supporters of sports teams other than your own.

Wilf Berger

edunciate

Intransitive verb – to pronounce words in an atrocious manner.

Tim O'ly

Adulescent

A pubescent pop idol

Patrick O'Shea

neckromancer

someone who specializes in giving hickeys

Bob Kriz

Google-d-goop

The extraneous/useless results of a internet search.

Leo Oneil

appoplectic

Overcome with anger at the intrusive nature and/or number of ads in an app.

Mark Hewitt

self-defacating

from self-deprecating: One who pretends to be humble, but is really full of shit!

Dai Jones

Untomestcated

A wild story that would make a good book

Doug Langmead

Brotate

To change your best friend on a regular basis

Cindy Stockton

bamnesia

An inability to remember the recipes of of Chef Emeril Lagasse

Anne DelCampo

apropost

A uniquely relevant and opportune addition to social media

Anne DelCampo

Infliction

That place on an exponential curve where it really starts to take off – indicating something dire is about to happen.

Maggie Wilson

Malapropism

Poor use of props in a play

Jamie

Sinopsis

A brief recounting of a person's wrong doings

Anne DelCampo

Asspiration

an idea that really BACKfires.

Holly Deuel Gilster

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